Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-23
IN SoTTTH'S LOVELY CITY
v,H A, a TYPE OF RE
SAY ANY eor1THERN PROGRESS.

o,ords of Health anu - ot a southern
@0s ,ro's, rom the Tour OF 49,
- ,S"'s.poudent OF the Nc"
Times. 10, +.a IoveIiest
40 10 civ Of all the South mere are i eso
i've o ivy, nav compare with her IN beau
'ls' n 't in not one such is there the trace
IT, Ou ..- - or industrial substance that oa-
aelNIy' nos Landscape delights have
' 'at,ad many town that out for It's own
l''''" '.,roctiyeuess OF aspect would nave
YER! .S a' onward to commercial power
ols'" ,mnortance; and in the eouth
anu - onlv in a degree more true
,I -'y at the North. The dwelling place anu
, 10 n,artsbop havein manga short-sighted
Ine WI 1 ,,,oidct been IN conflict. The
urban PaCS the sitht OF smoke have
Il SIN. II @" sensibllities, and towns
Il Tu1l-u i" have been irrpressIDle In
thSt mn End poaneadativeness have been
prog s'or nv the menace OF those whose
Delu 0a nome free from the hurly
n ldeaL IS vovs of industry and trade.
puII! Oh is herself, to an extent, an
Sa' anI,a of this. Sue would have a
exampiV hart in the career of the new
AIse' - dow had she been less beautllul.
n oV nl.i'o escaping the singing winds ana
N ~ ia snow and storm incessant that
80 life bleakly real III New 1ork III
4 man man savannah smiles as a very
nCodise Flowering vines scramble over
Ya'os old oaks wave live branches
leso,;ng with banners OF moss, gray
n iS l,iisteping in a sunshine that warns
Hu" eir N NAV days balmlness; roses
saGd fragrance 10 commlngle WIN the
o3or If Ilv and peach tree, and In the
9troats great palms stand sentlnel 10
oSoir If public squares and parks the
K ot which no other town Ill all the
- can boast. But antlquest guide
hnots tell this much; they VINO
ovo N study savannah in this new
sTa of Southern prOgressiveness are
n .nt ;ntert merely on the celebration OF
II hIoom and fragrances and the picturesque
IN Isndscape layout. Beauty's charms
ora nnt 40 negotiable in the Southern mar
lot move AZ they once were; lanRuor0us
aosa ia no longer the highest ideal OF the
man Of Dixie; the garden is not half so
nonrb the object of endeavor now as the
smitby is. Wherefore, Savannah Is not
60 boasttul as once she was Of her excel
ences Of feature, though substance for
the boasting still remains. SOlOng asher
green squares. with statue and tree and
4 fower remain; so long as she has Bona
venture. thus long will she have a sin
unon her should she ignore this beauty
s6oupdjug. But that there is no longer
monopoly in the assertion OF superiority
through mere lOVeliness is not provoca-
ton to apologies.
4 Her line of parks are insurers Of health
as well as puryeyOrs of beauty and
sweetness. And health has come to be
a considered vast deal more than 1t used
i to be in the South. Chill and fever once
4 went iudustriOusly ambling all over Sa-
4 vaunab the man who wasn't sick semi
j occasionally felt lonesome. But health
1 lulIess has come with careful drainage.
i and complaints Of malaria are no longer
1 heard. Citizens who used to spend not
4 less tnan three or four months OF the
i year Out of town for health's sake, may
4 now remain at home the year through
/ without danger or discomfort, so local
autaoriu9s worthy Of credence aver.
There are few things 50 full OF encourage
ment IN the South to-day as the wider
scope that health precautions take.
The neglect Of Birmingham stands
as black mark in this respect,
amply relieved by the brighter examples
OF Chattanooga, Memphis, Montgomery,
examples reflected clearly in Savannah.
llere is scarcely single town of size,
Indeed, IN all the South now that Is fairly
awake to the new spirit of enterprise and
/ progress that has not with its money
making ways mingled care for sanitary
avs, done work and incurred expense to
/ guard public health. Every town OF con-
sequence IN New England has its local
Board Of Health and associations with
hegneorlnH authorities TO attend TO sani-
taTl needs, remedial and precautionary,
and the South is following this Yankee
example Probably.
here Is 0ae other thing that the North
uas taught Dixie, and that Dixie learns
TNl vast advantage TO herself. The
ahEee board Of health is attended bv
,le lankee board OF trade. People at the
NoIth VINO have cared 10 watch the min.
.sules Ihat have established and main
.alueu lnrlit ard enterprise ana built uD
oo1ilerclal prosperity In the live towns
VI New OK and Pennsylvania, Connec-
ucut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts
ueeu 10 mint OF the important part that
Ia, has oeel played in that development by
.ue local board OF trade. | recur TO one
,alI example OF this building up instru.
IelIsilty Bridgeport, Conn. mn-
pass IT. A mechanic with an idea
SUI ~ cash, an invention and no
f fSeps@l, SIrayed into Bridgeport twelve or
n as'ecH years ago and explained TO a mer-
t tuaay mat ne would swap of his patent
AZ d uozeh dollars or SO. The merchant
oHo au.ueu II other merchants looked II
,ol, l9o' Inc result was mat the broad
i l'aueg men OF Bridgeport decided thai
o I',gau Vi investing lew dollars in mere
S aHi NY tAey would subscribe literally 10
,ori, vi Tue establishment of a small faa-
NO.. "neIeIh the inventors idea mipht ne
n,,oo 49, utilized. The result of that
,booia1l'sduged citizenship has rewarded
,o o.a o"h hundred-fold over and over
start 6a" "e'oIy tuat was given a modest
jns,ru Luz ~ grown 10 be the centre of an in
and .uaI employs scores OF workpeople
nDrin mates Dig tax payments to tbe
matos P"' treasury. THAT'S what
n uanes towns grow. And ,Sa
~avorn 2outh realizes the taot.
Qua D"I standing emiDsntly conspicu-
drac,in, Ipt OF pro2ressiyeness In this
10 tho ta' million dollars was added
erlv l"A"oIe value OF the city's prom
proye,"p,V year, represented bv i'm.
Dl tbs to. -ve largely In the business part
most all me year before showed al
iDal b.d Sni AIo"Ih, and the year before
Iced IN 'aI se advancement IN il, as in
han h.d sleaIer or less extent every wear
bressss ouiIhg tne past decade. CofLon
mill. a ooyloh mills, rice mills, blaming
shoe "oIT mills, sugar mlIla Yrooh;ns.
s,dtdln,orvo,'e, arc examples Of the diver
al centre. '"' ""o growing indus
, Co., ). II. Estin, who has moao cha
abest and ,MoRNING NEWS one Of the
tue Country nosI influential journals OF
as atypicayI y ,' ana who may be lairly taken
he an iosiaipi Isctlcal business man, gave